Lawrence William Vernaglia

Lawrence Vernaglia is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP where he serves as Chair of the firm's national Health Care Industry Team. 

Mr. Vernaglia represents hospitals, health systems and academic medical centers and a variety of other health care providers. Mr. Vernaglia's practice involves regulatory and transactional matters, including Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement compliance advice and appeals; mergers, acquisitions and financings; state regulatory issues including licensing, change of ownership, and CoN/DoN; survey/certification appeals; patient care/medical ethics; fraud & abuse/Stark law analyses; managed care contracting; and general corporate and business planning in health care. He runs strategic planning programs for senior management and governing boards. He regularly serves as local counsel on health care transactions in New England for multi-state projects.

Mr. Vernaglia is a regular lecturer on hospital issues, physicians, long term care, and other topics in law and medicine. Speeches by Mr. Vernaglia addressed topics such as: physician/hospital joint ventures; discount/collection policies for uninsured patients; the Anti-kickback Statute; corporate governance for nonprofits; compliance program developments; reimbursement and managed care; and HIPAA.

He is the co-chair of the Boston Bar Association's Health Law Section (2006-2008 term). Mr. Vernaglia serves on the editorial boards of JONA's Journal of Healthcare Law, Ethics, & Regulation; and Medicine & Health/Rhode Island, the journal of the RI Medical Society. He is one of nine members of the Medical Economics' Board of Legal Editorial Consultants. For several years, he has been co-chair of MCLE's comprehensive Health Law Basics program and the advanced Health Law Conference. He is involved with several not-for-profit organizations, as a board member and legal advisor. Mr. Vernaglia is a member of the Board of Corporators of Hallmark Health System, a multi-campus community hospital system in Massachusetts. Mr. Vernaglia has been named as a top healthcare lawyer by Massachusetts Super Lawyers® since its inception. Only 5% of Massachusetts attorneys receive this honor. He was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 in the field of health care. Mr. Vernaglia has been listed in the 2008 and the most recent edition, 2009, of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers.

Mr. Vernaglia is the co-editor of the book Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to the False Claims Act (2007). He is also the co-editor of the two volume treatise Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual (2004). He has published more than 40 articles and book chapters on various topics in law and medicine in such sources as AHLA's Health Law Digest and Health Lawyers Weekly; Medical Economics; The Journal of Health Care Finance; The Boston Business Journal; The Physician's News Digest; Developing and Managing Physician Networks: Business and Legal Strategies; Annotated Law Reports 5th Ed.; Health Care Policy Report; American Academy of Healthcare Attorneys News; Medicine &; Health/Rhode Island; and JONA's Journal of Healthcare Law, Ethics & Regulation.

Mr. Vernaglia has been a part-time faculty member in Providence College's Health Policy and Management Program, where he has taught health care law for eight years. He also served as a judge/instructor at Boston University School of Law for various programs since 1993.

Mr. Vernaglia earned his J.D. and his master's in public health from Boston University and his bachelor's degree from New College of Florida. He is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York and New Hampshire.